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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 10913, member: 669&quot;]The plastic case appears to be commercially </p><p>made, roughly in the shape of Independence Hall, with it&#039;s clock tower, in Philadelphia.</p><p>&nbsp; <img src="http://www.ushistory.org/tour/gifs/_indhall.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> It doesn&#039;t seem to match any of the U.S. Mint&#039;s Bicentennial medal designs, and is probably from a private mint.The legends on the stamps look like they may have been genuine postage stamps - if memory serves 10¢ was either the first class or postcard rate in 1976.&nbsp; The descriptive printing on the back was either privately added, or perhaps there are inserts behind the actual stamps.</p><p><br /></p><p>Throw in the &quot;200 years of liberty&quot; and the 1776/1976 dates, and you have one of the literally thousands of souvenir items that were sold during the Bicentennial celebrations, possibly even at the gift shop at the downtown Philadelphia national park where Independece Hall and the Liberty Bell are located.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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